“Forget your joystick, keyboard and mouse — with CamSpace you can use your WebCam to control your game play!
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This is one slick application for gaming on windows. It comes with 13 games but has many free downloadable games in its game download manager. It also lets you control any game on your pc with your webcam allowing you to setup multiple virtual controllers , keyboard shortcuts , mouse controllers or any combination with just one webcam. Check it here http://www.camspace.com/
According to good ol wikipedia Augmented reality is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real-world and computer-generated data (virtual reality), where computer graphics objects are blended into real footage in real time.
Check out the videos and links below to see what augmented reality is and try it for your self.
This one is great and has some nice effects. Try it out in your cubicle and impress your buddies.
http://ge.ecomagination.com…This little flash application utilizes a web camera and 3D tracking to place a character in your video, nice!http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=392
Experimenting Augmented Reality, a remake of the classic game “Pixel Breaker” using flash and webcam. Click the link to play it http://www.studiohangloose….
This is a first peek at an augmented reality virtual pet game being developed for the iPhone in the GVU Center’s Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech. The game is far from done, but there’s enough to it right now to show off some of what will be possible. (Kudo’s to Kimberly Spreen for getting this going). More info can be found here http://www.augmentedenvironments.org/…
Gizmondo Augmented Reailty Game – Catapult. Please not this was never released it was in development when Gizmondo went under. There is no sound on this clip.
ArtoolKit approach for Magic the Gathering
http://www.int13.net – Youtube style video of Kweekies. It’s just a pre-alpha version, final release coming this summer.
